Oracle MySQL CVE-2017-3635 Vulnerability
Description
Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.56 and earlier, 5.6.36 and earlier and 5.7.18 and earlier. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. Note: The documentation has also been updated for the correct way to use mysql_stmt_close(). Please see:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-stmt-execute.html,
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-stmt-fetch.html,
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-stmt-close.html,
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-stmt-error.html,
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-stmt-errno.html, and
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-stmt-sqlstate.html.
Affected Applications
MySQL Server